bone

1n-varYour bones are the hard parts inside your body which together form your skeleton.Many passengers suffered broken bones..., Stephen fractured a thigh bone..., The body is made up primarily of bone, muscle, and fat..., She scooped the chicken bones back into the stewpot.

2verbIf you bone a piece of meat or fish, you remove the bones from it before cooking it.Make sure that you do not pierce the skin when boning the chicken thighs...V n

3adjA bone tool or ornament is made of bone.usu ADJ n...a small, expensive pocketknife with a bone handle.

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marrow bone→
T-bone steak

5The bare bonesof something are its most basic parts or details.♦
bare bonesphraseThere are not even the bare bones of a garden here<endash>I've got nothing.

6If something is too close to the bone, it makes you feel uncomfortable because it is very close to the truth or to the real nature of something.♦
close to the bonephraseusu v-link PHR

7If you make no bonesabout something, you talk openly about it, rather than trying to keep it a secret.♦
make no bonesphraseV inflects, usu PHR about nSome of them make no bones about their political views.

8If you make no bonesabout doing something that is unpleasant or difficult or that might upset someone else, you do it without hesitating.♦
make no bonesphraseV inflects, usu PHR about -ingStafford-Clark made no bones about reapplying for the job when Daldry was standing for it.

9If something such as costs are cut to the bone, they are reduced to the minimum possible.♦
to the bonephrasePHR after vIt has survived by cutting its costs to the bone..., Profit margins have been slashed to the bone in an attempt to keep turnover moving.

10You use to the bone to indicate that you are very deeply affected by something. For example, if you feel chilled to the bone, your whole body feels extremely cold, often because you have had a shock.♦
to the bonephrasePHR after vWhat I saw chilled me to the bone.

1adjIf a part of your body is bare, it is not covered by any clothing.She was wearing only a thin robe over a flimsy nightdress, and her feet were bare..., She had bare arms and a bare neck.

2adjA bare surface is not covered or decorated with anything.usu ADJ nThey would have liked bare wooden floors throughout the house.

3adjIf a tree or a branch is bare, it has no leaves on it....an old, twisted tree, its bark shaggy, many of its limbs brittle and bare.

4adjIf a room, cupboard, or shelf is bare, it is empty.His fridge was bare apart from three very withered tomatoes..., He led me through to a bare, draughty interviewing room.

5adjAn area of ground that is bare has no plants growing on it.That's probably the most bare, bleak, barren and inhospitable island I've ever seen.

6adjIf someone gives you the bare facts or the barest details of something, they tell you only the most basic and important things.det ADJ
(=plain)Newspaper reporters were given nothing but the bare facts by the Superintendent in charge of the investigation.

7adjIf you talk about the bare minimum or the bare essentials, you mean the very least that is necessary.det ADJ
(=absolute)The army would try to hold the western desert with a bare minimum of forces..., These are the bare essentials you'll need to dress your baby during the first few months.

8adjBare is used in front of an amount to emphasize how small it is.a ADJ amount(emphasis)
(=mere)Sales are growing for premium wines, but at a bare 2 percent a year.

9verbIf you bare something, you uncover it and show it.WRITTENWalsh bared his teeth in a grin...V n

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bare bones→
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11If someone does something with their bare hands, they do it without using any weapons or tools.♦
with one's bare handsphrasePHR after vPolice believe the killer punched her to death with his bare hands..., Rescuers were using their bare hands to reach the trapped miners.

12If you lay something bare, you uncover it completely so that it can then be seen.♦
lay sth barephraseV inflects
(=expose)The clearing out of disused workshops laid bare thousands of Italianate glazed tiles.

bare-faced, barefacedYou use bare-faced to describe someone's behaviour when you want to emphasize that they do not care that they are behaving wrongly.adjADJ n(emphasis)
(=brazen, shameless)What bare-faced cheek!, ...crooked politicians who tell bare-faced lies.

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bare

1buck naked(slang)denuded, exposed, in the bare scud(slang)in the raw(informal)naked, naked as the day one was born(informal)nude, peeled, scuddy(slang)shorn, stripped, unclad, unclothed, uncovered, undressed, without a stitch on(informal)